A wide-brimmed straw hat, teal-green umbrella, and rust-brown satchel hang from a nail at the center of this vertical, still-life painting. The nail is driven into a clover-green plank across the top of the picture, perhaps representing molding on the wall otherwise mottled with beige and ash brown. The short black handle of the floral-patterned bag is looped over the nail. The long umbrella has a wood, knob-like handle and is edged around the limp, collapsed edge with parchment white. It is not clear how the umbrella is affixed to the bag or nail, but the hat hangs from a string looped…
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Straw Hat, Bag, and Umbrella

John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 - 1907)

1890/early 1900s

Medium
oil on fabric transferred from canvas board
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 40.8 × 25.56 cm (16 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.) ; framed: 42.39 × 26.99 × 3.97 cm (16 11/16 × 10 5/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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